Triple

T310178
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Space Shuttle Challenger disaster E6388 entity
Predicate crewMember P2094 FINISHED
Object Christa McAuliffe
Christa McAuliffe was an American teacher selected as the first private citizen to fly in space, who tragically died in the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
E40239 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: Christa McAuliffe | Statement: [Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, crewMember, Christa McAuliffe]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Christa McAuliffe
Context triple: [Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, crewMember, Christa McAuliffe]
  • A. Sally K. Ride
    Sally K. Ride was an American physicist and astronaut who became the first American woman in space and later served on high-level investigative panels into NASA shuttle disasters.
  • B. Ann Dunham
    Ann Dunham was an American anthropologist and development specialist best known as the mother of U.S. President Barack Obama.
  • C. Shannon Lucid
    Shannon Lucid is an American biochemist and NASA astronaut known for holding long-duration spaceflight records and serving on multiple Space Shuttle and Mir space missions.
  • D. Shirley Ann Jackson
    Shirley Ann Jackson is an American physicist and trailblazing academic leader renowned for her pioneering research in theoretical physics and for being one of the first Black women to earn a Ph.D. from MIT.
  • E. Jane Belson
    Jane Belson was a British barrister best known as the wife of author Douglas Adams.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Christa McAuliffe
Triple: [Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, crewMember, Christa McAuliffe]
Generated description
Christa McAuliffe was an American teacher selected as the first private citizen to fly in space, who tragically died in the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Christa McAuliffe
Target entity description: Christa McAuliffe was an American teacher selected as the first private citizen to fly in space, who tragically died in the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
  • A. Sally K. Ride
    Sally K. Ride was an American physicist and astronaut who became the first American woman in space and later served on high-level investigative panels into NASA shuttle disasters.
  • B. Ann Dunham
    Ann Dunham was an American anthropologist and development specialist best known as the mother of U.S. President Barack Obama.
  • C. Shannon Lucid
    Shannon Lucid is an American biochemist and NASA astronaut known for holding long-duration spaceflight records and serving on multiple Space Shuttle and Mir space missions.
  • D. Shirley Ann Jackson
    Shirley Ann Jackson is an American physicist and trailblazing academic leader renowned for her pioneering research in theoretical physics and for being one of the first Black women to earn a Ph.D. from MIT.
  • E. Jane Belson
    Jane Belson was a British barrister best known as the wife of author Douglas Adams.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69a2e79230508190b912ecb555aae17e completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ea4778cc8190be7b648a82542891 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:14 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3bc277528819096184b6cc6b98ae2 completed March 1, 2026, 4:10 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3bea16ee48190a033ea3907703e40 completed March 1, 2026, 4:20 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3befc80a8819092506dd29e18f2aa completed March 1, 2026, 4:22 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:06 p.m.